bioinnovel Chapter 390 Blue Star
Chapter 390 Blue Star
Su Fan held the golden fragment in his palm. The light on the surface of the fragment was extremely faint, so faint that it was almost completely covered by the golden patterns on the bricks of the South Heavenly Gate.
But every time it flashed, the extremely thin golden line in the palm of his left hand jumped in sync.
The Pangu Axe was stuck in the crack of the city bricks at his feet, and the tiny golden dot on the axe blade was also flashing in sync.
Three beams of light: a fragment, a thin line in the palm, and a point of light on the axe blade.
The flashing rhythm was perfectly synchronized, originating entirely from the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart within Xu's chest cavity.
"The fragment of the Guardian's Will has recognized its master. It was sealed deep within the ancient battlefield for 30,000 years, waiting for the aura of Pangu's Axe to reappear."
"When Xu enveloped it with the pure light of the Creation Jade Tablet just now, it sensed the will of all living beings on the axe blade and activated itself."
Xu removed his right hand from the pale gold line on his chest and walked up to Su Fan.
The transparent scorch mark on his finger had cracked and healed during the process of enveloping the three orbs of light. The newly formed skin was thinner than before, so thin that you could see the extremely fine flint embers slowly flowing beneath it.
He took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation from his bosom. The clear light on the fragment had been completely exhausted, leaving only an ordinary gray-white pebble with the last rune carved by Hongjun still remaining on its surface.
The runes had completely faded, no longer emitting a trace of light.
"The fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation are ruined. All three orbs of light completely covered them, and the dosage of the Clear Light was just right. The first one was the thickest, the second and third were a bit thinner, but all were within the safe threshold."
The ruins placed the discarded fragments on the city bricks. The fragments shattered into extremely fine powder the moment they touched the golden patterns on the bricks. The powder was blown away by the wind and drifted into the depths of the Ruins' cracks.
Su Fan pressed the golden fragment onto the blade of the Pangu Axe.
The moment the shards touched the axe blade, the entire axe shuddered violently.
The vibration traveled from the axe blade to the handle, from the handle to his left palm, and from his palm into the depths of his mind.
The Pangu Guardian Law and his will of all living beings inside the axe handle were simultaneously activated deep within the spiritual platform, and the two laws intertwined and merged in the deepest part of consciousness.
The primordial guardian will that Pangu extracted from the twelfth chaotic stone embryo, and the path of all living beings that he twisted out with the will of ten thousand people at the South Heavenly Gate, were originally two branches that branched off from the same tree.
Now the two branches have grown back onto the same tree.
After the fusion was complete, the golden light on the axe blade was completely absorbed into the axe body, and even the tiny golden spot at the tip of the axe blade disappeared.
Pangu's axe has completely transformed into an extremely ordinary axe. The wooden handle even shows very fine natural wood grain, and the blade is an extremely ordinary iron gray, no different from any axe hanging in any ordinary craftsman's shop.
Su Fan held the axe up to his eyes to examine it, then put it down and weighed it in his hand.
It's lighter, much lighter than before, so light that I can swing it freely with one hand.
He tucked the axe into his waistband and looked up.
The three orbs of light, enveloped in the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation, were suspended directly below the golden light of Mars above the South Heavenly Gate, each slowly rotating on its own axis.
The first light sphere has the thickest white membrane on its surface, completely suppressing the dark purple light inside. Through the membrane, only extremely blurry dark red dots can be seen jumping very slowly.
The membranes of the second and third orbs were slightly thinner, and the dark purple light inside was still flowing slightly, but the rhythm of the flow had been slowed down to an extremely slow pace by the clear light.
"We've brought back all three orbs of light. The first one is a fragment of the ancient god's body, and the second and third are ordinary larvae. Lao Jun, has the heartbeat frequency of that larva deep within the Guixu foundation been adjusted?"
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and squatted down on the edge of the battlement.
The gash on the left shoulder armor, ripped open by Rahu's hand, had not yet been repaired. The metal at the edge of the tear was curled up, revealing faint dark gold law patterns inside.
The Primordial Celestial Venerable took the whisk off his lap, and the whisk's strands drew an arc in the air.
The real-time heartbeat frequency of the larva deep within the Guixu foundation appeared in the arc, and the frequency had been tuned to be completely synchronized with the beating frequency of the dark red light spots inside the three light spheres.
At the instant they reached the same frequency, the three orbs of light simultaneously stopped rotating and hovered in mid-air, vibrating slightly.
The first orb of light vibrated the most violently; through the clear white membrane, one could see the dark purple light inside rapidly circulating, resisting its attack.
"The first sphere of light is resisting the frequency of the Ruins. The fragments of the ancient god's life laws within it are too pure. Although it is enveloped in pure light, its instincts remain. It senses the heartbeat of the larva deep within the Ruins' foundation, but it doesn't recognize it."
"What it's looking for isn't the larva, but the fragments of the heart. You've already shattered the heart fragments, so it can't find them and has made the Ruins of Return its second target. But what it wants isn't the mother, but the scent of its enemy. It's mistaking the Ruins of Return for you."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable pointed his whisk towards the first sphere of light, and 108 transparent runes on the whisk flew out simultaneously, forming an extremely thin array of clear light around the sphere.
The array seal enveloped the light sphere, temporarily suppressing its vibrations.
"If it sees me as an enemy, then I'll directly infuse it with the will of the Dao of All Beings. Whether it recognizes me after that depends on whether the fragments of the ancient god's life law within its body resonate with the will of the Dao of All Beings."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist and walked directly under the first ball of light.
The ball of light hovered three feet above his head, and with each jump of the dark red dot inside the clear white membrane, the thin golden line in his left palm jumped in sync.
He raised the axe, aiming the blade at the center of the sphere of light. The will of all beings surged from the golden lines in his palm, flowing down the handle into the blade, and then shooting out a faint golden light from the tip of the blade.
The light pierced through the clear white membrane and struck the dark red dot inside the sphere.
The sphere of light vibrated violently.
The dark red light spot suddenly accelerated its jumping the moment it came into contact with the will of all living beings, from jumping once every few tens of breaths to jumping once every three breaths, and from jumping once every three breaths to jumping once every one breath.
After accelerating to its limit, the fragment of the ancient god's life law sealed inside the light spot activated on its own, exploding into a burst of extremely bright dark purple light inside the clear light membrane.
The light surged and crashed inside the membrane, creating countless fine cracks in the pure white membrane.
Xu rushed forward and pressed his right hand against the membrane surface. The last wisp of flint embers emerged from the transparent scorch mark on his index finger, spreading along the cracks on the membrane surface and filling them one by one.
After the cracks were filled, the membrane wall stabilized again, and the dark purple light inside was suppressed again.
"Its purity of law is too high; a single will of the Path of All Beings cannot suppress it. We need to add the power of the fragment of the Guardian Will as well. You just fused the fragment into the axe, so there are now two laws inside the axe."
"One is Pangu's primordial protective will, and the other is your will of the Way of All Beings. If both laws are poured in at the same time, the law frequencies of the fragments of the ancient god's life law within its body will resonate from both directions simultaneously."
"Once resonance is successful, its first instinct will change from seeking out enemies to seeking out sources of laws that resonate with it."
Xu pressed his hand against the membrane and turned to look at Su Fan.
Su Fan gripped the axe with both hands and raised the Pangu Axe above his head.
The thin golden line on the left palm split open the moment the hands gripped the axe, and the golden blood that gushed out from the crack flowed down the axe handle onto the axe blade, where it condensed into a very thin layer of golden blood film.
Pangu's primordial protective will and his will of the Way of All Beings were simultaneously activated within the blood membrane. The two laws intertwined, and a brighter and more intense golden light shot out from the tip of the axe blade than before.
The light pierced through the clear white membrane and struck the dark red dot of light once more.
This time, the sphere of light did not vibrate.
The dark red light stopped pulsating after being struck by the two laws simultaneously, remaining still for a full three breaths.
Then it started beating again, but the frequency of its beating was no longer its own; it became a rhythm completely in sync with that of the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins.
After the frequency conversion was completed, the pure white membrane on the surface of the light sphere shattered on its own, breaking into extremely fine pure light powder. After the powder dispersed, the fragments of the ancient god sealed inside the light sphere were exposed to the golden light of Mars.
The fragment was only the size of a fingernail, and the dark purple light flowing on its surface had completely subsided, leaving only a very faint golden spot in the very center of the fragment.
That was the mark of law left after the will of all living beings and the will of Pangu to protect were poured in together.
"The first one has been identified. It has taken the Ruins of Return as its mother. No, it doesn't take the Ruins of Return as its mother; it takes the two wills that were poured into its body as its mother."
"Its first instinct has changed from seeking enemies to seeking the source of laws of the same frequency, and that source is your Pangu Axe. It has taken the axe as its mother body."
Xu loosened his right hand, which was pressed against the membrane, and took two steps back.
Su Fan put down the Pangu Axe, and the ball of light followed the axe downwards, hovering in front of his chest and slowly rotating.
He moved the axe to the left, and the ball of light followed suit.
Move to the right, and then drift to the right.
He tucked the axe into his waistband, and the ball of light floated directly to his side, sticking to the axe handle and remaining motionless.
Nezha walked over, carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear, and looked down at the ball of light attached to the axe handle: "It's attached to you now. The fragment of the ancient god's original body uses the Pangu Axe as its mother body; it'll follow you wherever you go from now on."
"Fine, then. It's a fragment of the primordial life law extracted from the core of an ancient god, and its purity is extremely high."
"If it can find the ancient god's remains that have not yet been activated, burrow into the remains and become an aggregate, then there will be another law cycle node in the depths of chaos that is stronger than the more than one hundred aggregates in the ruins."
"The scope of the chaotic law cycle will be larger and more stable than it is now."
Su Fan touched the surface of the light sphere with his fingertip. The light sphere jumped slightly when it came into contact with the temperature of his fingertip, and after the jump, the light flowing on the surface dimmed a layer.
"The second and third are ordinary larvae. The purity of the life law within them is much lower than that of the first one. Imbuing them with a single strand of the will of the Dao of All Beings is enough. Great Sage, you protect the Void, I will do the imbuing."
Su Fan walked to the bottom of the second ball of light and raised the Pangu Axe.
Sun Wukong flipped down from the top of the wall, slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, and the aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel spontaneously exploded into a circle of extremely bright white electric arcs, which formed an extremely thin barrier of laws around Xu and Su Fan.
The barrier kept all the remaining fragments of chaotic laws out of the gray fog.
Xu stood next to the second sphere of light, his right hand pressed against the clear light membrane on the surface of the sphere, and his left hand supporting the core of the stone.
The silvery-white crystal on the surface of the core brightened slightly the moment it approached the sphere of light. The core sensed the fragments of the ancient god's life laws within the larva and was using resonance frequencies to help the larva stabilize the law structure within its body.
Su Fan aimed the axe blade at the center of the light sphere. The will of all living beings surged from the golden lines in his palm, flowing along the axe handle into the axe blade, from which a faint golden light shot out.
The light penetrated the membrane and struck the smaller, dark red dot.
The light spot jumped for a moment when it was hit, and after the jump, its frequency immediately changed to a rhythm that was completely in sync with the heart's pulsation network.
The conversion speed was at least three times faster than the first one. Ordinary larvae did not have the same strong resistance as the fragments of the ancient god's body. After the will of the Dao of All Beings was poured in, it was absorbed almost instantly.
After the frequency conversion was completed, the clear light membrane on the surface of the photosphere shattered on its own, exposing the larva to the golden light of Mars.
The larva was only the size of a grain of rice, and its body surface was covered with an extremely fine network of laws formed by the interweaving of chaotic laws and life laws. The dark red light spot in the very center of the network was beating steadily, and the rhythm of the beating was completely synchronized with the Eastern Emperor's heart in the chest cavity of the Void.
"The second one is accepted. It also uses the Pangu Axe as its mother material."
Xu lifted the larva from the rubble of the light sphere. The larva crawled on its own in his palm, stopping at his fingertips and slowly rotating above them.
He handed the larva towards Su Fan, and the larva automatically floated to the side of the Pangu Axe handle, sticking to the first ball of light.
After the third larva infused the will of all living beings with the power of the Dao, it also recognized the Pangu Axe.
Three orbs of light, one fragment of an ancient god's body, and two ordinary larvae were all suspended around the handle of Pangu's axe, each slowly rotating on its own axis, the rhythm of which was perfectly synchronized with the heart network of the Void.
"All three have been accepted. The larva deep within the Guixu foundation now has three like-minded members of its kind, and it will no longer regard Guixu as its sole mother."
"Next, these three orbs of light will be guided by the will of the Pangu Axe to find the ancient god's remains that have not yet been activated. Once found, they will enter the remains and become new aggregates."
"At that time, the number of nodes in the chaotic law cycle will increase again, and the coverage will extend to deeper levels of chaos."
"The ancient god fragments still sealed in the law deposition zone will also be automatically absorbed by the aggregate's law cycle. The disorderly expansion of the chaotic laws will be resolved at its root."
Xu put the stone core back into his bosom.
The Primordial Celestial Venerable sat cross-legged with his back straight, a whisk resting across his knees.
He took the whisk off his lap, and the whisk strands drew an arc in the air, within which appeared a real-time image of the chaotic law cycle.
In the video, the more than one hundred aggregates in the ruins are continuously absorbing fragments of the Chaos Law, and the density of the Chaos Law has dropped to an extremely low level.
Three new orbs of light flickered at the edge of the image, drifting deeper into the chaos under the guidance of the will of the Pangu Axe, toward the remains of ancient gods that had not yet been activated.
The remains sensed the will of all living beings within the sphere of light in the gray mist, and the empty law structure inside the chest cavity began to activate spontaneously.
The first remains stood up after the orb of light entered its chest cavity, and the second one followed suit.
New aggregates are taking shape one by one in the deeper parts of chaos.
"The scope of the chaotic law cycle is expanding into the deepest reaches of chaos. The expansion rate is faster than expected. After the density of the chaotic laws decreases, the internal law structure of the ancient god's remains will spontaneously activate."
"The larvae don't need to burrow inside; the remains will absorb the surrounding fragments of chaotic laws and stand up again. Once standing, the remains have no instinct to attack, only the instinct to absorb fragments."
"They will migrate to the place with the highest density of chaotic laws on their own, continuously absorbing fragments during the migration. Once this process begins, it will not stop until the density of chaotic laws drops to zero."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable withdrew his whisk, and the image vanished.
What will happen to chaos after it drops to zero?
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"Chaos will not disappear. The laws of chaos are the fundamental laws governing the outer reaches of the primordial world; they will not disappear, but will only be transformed. What is reduced to zero are fragments of the laws of chaos."
"After the aggregate absorbed all the disordered and expanding fragments, the remaining chaotic law essence is an extremely stable law structure. This structure will form a law membrane along the outer edge of the primordial world."
"The membrane wall has a buffering effect against the impact of external laws, but it is not a barrier in itself. It is a transition layer between the primordial world and the depths of chaos. If anything from the deeper depths of chaos wants to rush into the primordial world in the future, it must first pass through this transition layer."
"The two severed limbs of Rahu are still deep in the pool of liquid. The torso and head are still sealed. Could they be affected by the laws of the aggregate's cycle?"
Su Fan looked at Lao Jun.
"No. Rahu's Demon Ancestor Law and Chaos Law are mutually exclusive. The aggregate's law cycle only absorbs fragments of Chaos Law, not fragments of Demon Ancestor Law."
"The seal on Rahu's severed limbs, torso, and head is secure and will not loosen for three thousand years. The seal will expire after three thousand years, but by then the cycle of chaotic laws will have been running stably for three thousand years, and Rahu's fragments of demonic ancestor laws will be continuously worn down to extremely weak. Even if the seal is broken, he won't be able to cause any trouble."
Yuanshi Tianzun placed his whisk on his lap and looked up at Mars.
The golden light of Mars was extremely stable, no longer flickering, and kept in sync with the newborn pulse of the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins.
He was silent for a moment, then spoke a sentence, not loud, but everyone on the entire city wall could hear it.
"The laws of chaos have taken shape in a cycle. The remains of the ancient gods have all risen. The descendants of the ancient gods have taken the Void as their mother. The threat of Rahu has been eliminated. The collapse of the singularity will not happen again."
"The extraterrestrial gods have been defeated, the well has been sealed, the Void has been filled, and the Heavenly Dao is no longer leaking information. From this day forward, this Southern Heavenly Gate no longer needs to be guarded."
No one spoke on the city wall.
Qingfeng leaned against the edge of the battlement, his broken sword resting on his hand. The human warrior held the Demon Emperor Spear across his lap. Gongsun Bao held the axe, which was mostly chipped. Yang Jian sat cross-legged under the spine, with two shards of mirror resting on his lap.
Everyone is listening.
The golden light of Mars shone on the city bricks, and the newly grown pale gold patterns on the bricks shone on their own in the golden light.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and stood up.
The tear in the left shoulder armor was ripped as he stood up, and the metal at the edge of the tear made a very faint scraping sound.
He hoisted the stick onto his shoulder and grinned.
"No need to guard it anymore. Then I, Old Sun, will return to Flower Fruit Mountain. I was imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years, and then spent more than ten years on the journey to the West. After I came out, I slashed my way from the South Heavenly Gate to the bottom of the well, to the Ruins of Return, to the Tai Sui Crack, and to the ruins. I haven't been back to Flower Fruit Mountain for tens of thousands of years. I wonder if my monkey descendants still recognize me."
Nezha slung his fire-tipped spear over his shoulder, walked to the edge of the battlements, and turned his back to everyone:
"I'm going back to Chen Tang Pass. Although that old man Li Jing forced me to cut my bones to return to my father back then, I personally built the walls of Chen Tang Pass. I'll go back and see if the walls have collapsed."
Qingfeng pulled the broken sword from the ground. The dark red law pattern on the sword had completely healed, and the newly grown blade gleamed with a faint cold light in the golden light of Mars.
He tucked his sword into his waistband: "I'll stay at Nantianmen. The city wall is repaired, and someone has to keep an eye on it."
The human warrior slammed the Demon Emperor's Spear against the city bricks, and the new skin growing from the old scars on his two broken legs had completely healed under the infusion of the will of the Path of All Beings.
He raised his hand and tapped a brick with the butt of his spear: "I've lost my legs, so it's the same wherever I go. There are still 10,050 wounded soldiers on this wall, and they have nowhere to go. I'll stay and lead them."
Gongsun Bao tucked his axe into his waistband, stood up, and walked to the human warrior's side:
"I'm not leaving either. After the remains of the myriad demons in Beiju Luzhou are returned to their places, Bone Mountain still needs to be inspected regularly. Yang Jian's shattered mirror can see the sealing status at the bottom of Bone Mountain. I'll patrol with him."
Yang Jian nodded and pieced the two shattered mirror pieces together. The real-time sealing image of the bottom layer of Bone Mountain in Beiju Luzhou appeared on the mirror surface.
After Di Jun's main body was nailed back to Bone Mountain, the seal stabilized. The law crystals from the three demon emperor heads, after being exorcised, were embedded in the tip of the demon emperor spear, reflecting a very faint golden light on the mirror surface.
Xu stood barefoot at the edge of the Guixu Crack, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest.
The larva deep within the foundation of Guixu beat very steadily in his chest through the pulse transmitted through the roots of the flintwood.
He removed his right hand from his chest, turned to look at everyone, his pale golden pupils reflecting each person on the city wall, and spoke a sentence in the ancient common language that he had only recently learned but was already extremely fluent in.
"I'll stay in Guixu. The foundation needs ongoing maintenance, and the connection between the Buzhou Mountain remains and the mountain base won't be completed for another month."
"Once the docking is complete, the laws of the Void will be able to operate completely independently. At that time, I might follow the roots of the flintwood to the depths of chaos to see the remains of those ancient gods that have stood up."
"They contain aggregates, which I activated from the core remains of the ruins; I essentially placed them there. I need to go check on them to see how well they're growing."
Yuanshi Tianzun stood up from his spine and draped his whisk over his shoulder.
One hundred and eight transparent runes flowed slowly on the whisk.
He looked down at Su Fan, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
"The axe in your hand has already transformed into a weapon of all living beings. It no longer needs to chop anything. But you still need it. After the chaotic laws took shape in a cycle, outside the outer membrane of the primordial world, there is a void even deeper than chaos."
"What lies in the void is something Hongjun couldn't foresee, Pangu couldn't cleave it open, and the ancient gods never went there. This membrane is the first line of defense for the primordial world, but your axe is the last. Where are you going with it?"
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist.
The three orbs of light remained attached to the axe handle, each slowly rotating on its own, their rhythm synchronized with the heartbeat of the Void.
There was no light on the axe blade, and no patterns of laws on the axe handle.
He could feel a complete Law of All Beings sealed inside the axe handle as he gripped it. It was a new law formed by the fusion of the will of ten thousand people in the primordial world and the original protective law of Pangu.
This law does not need light to prove itself.
He hoisted the axe onto his shoulder.
"Back to the mortal realm. The fried dough stick stall is still open."